The Great Game
Published on 6. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-85766-602-4 (ISBN)
Description
Smiley's People meets War of the Worlds... As a 19th century unlike our own comes to a close, Mycroft Holmes is found murdered outside his London club. It is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down the killer ' only to stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. In The Great Game, World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar concludes his epic trilogy of a Victorian era that could never have been: filled with literary references galore, not to mention airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts. It is a world where nothing is certain - not even death.
And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories in this 2016 edition, as Professor Tidhar explores the 'Dynamics of an Asteroid'!
File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories in this 2016 edition, as Professor Tidhar explores the 'Dynamics of an Asteroid'!
File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
Reviews / Votes
'Achieves moments of surprising depth and beauty, with real insights into human history and psychology as well as the immense and varied wealth of writing in the last half of the 19th century. It's a virtuoso performance.' - Locus; 'A clever, superior thriller, inventive and entertaining.' - SFXMore details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85766-602-4 (9780857666024)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming, the World Fantasy Award winning Osama and of the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century. He has a British Fantasy Award for Best Novella for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God. Lavie's first non-fiction novel Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction - co-authored with Shimon Adaf - was released through Repeater in March 2016.